Browse by Subject "World War II"

This dissertation examines the different but interconnected ways Soviet leaders and citizen-soldiers interpreted the Soviet war effort as a masculine endeavor. At the front, the entry of women into the ranks of combatants ...

Von Merveldt, Nikola(Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2007)

This article looks at two libraries founded in 1934 as counter-symbols
to the Nazi book burning: the German Freedom Library in Paris
and the American Library of Nazi-Banned Books at the Brooklyn
Jewish Center in New ...

Peiss, Kathy(Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2007)

For the first time in U.S. history, the protection of books and other
cultural resources became an official war aim during World War
II. Examining the broad historical process by which this policy was
formed and executed, ...

Shaw, Tamara(Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2007)

As the United States was gearing up for war in 1940, San Diego,
California, was one of the cities most affected by the increase in both
military personnel and civilian defense workers. Confronted with a
rapidly increasing ...

One of the enduring images from World War II is the photograph of the face of the GI in the surf on the Normandy beachhead, taken by Robert Capa and originally published in Life Magazine. The photograph now appears in most ...

When ""Mary Ruth" Memories of Mobile ...We Still Remember" was written, the author was unable to determine why and by whom "Mary Ruth" Memories of Mobile had been named. This is the real story of the "Mary Ruth." This is ...

Maack, Mary Niles(Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2007)

The American Library in Paris remained open to readers throughout
World War II, and its history during the darkest period of the occupation
is a tribute to the leadership and courage of an American-born
countess, Clara ...

This dissertation analyzes the popular construction of femininity in the United States during World War II and the ways in which a set of mass market series books for girls participated in and reflected the persuasive ...

Mäkinen, Ilkka(Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2007)

The ground for library work in Finnish military hospitals during
World War II was prepared before the war by three different traditions
of library activity. First, professional librarians and state library
authorities ...

The Eighth Air Force flew a total of 264,618 individual bomber sorties out of England during World War II. The 91st Bomb Group (Heavy), alone, flew 340 missions. Although many missions were routine, with little action, all ...

Sroka, Marek(Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2007)

Before World War II the Prussian State Library, with its three million
volumes, was one of the most important German libraries. It was operational
until mid-1943, but the ever-increasing number of air raids
over Berlin ...

Abstract: On 11 January 1944 the US 8th Air Force mounted a maximum effort raid on targets deep in Germany in the vicinity of Brunswick. As the Strike Force moved over the continent, weather conditions, both over continent ...

Intrator, Miriam(Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2007)

Jews crowded into the ghettos and concentration camps of World War
II were desperate for any avenue of resistance or escape, not only physically
but also mentally. In the ghetto concentration camp Theresienstadt,
the ...

Neavill, Gordon B.(Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2007)

American book publishing during the Second World War had to cope
with a huge increase in demand for books coupled with scarcity of
resources, especially paper rationing imposed by the War Production
Board. Based on ...

This dissertation examines the decline of public transportation and rise of automobile use in the United States from the perspectives of social and environmental history. Through a case study of Detroit, the dissertation ...

During World War II, the ten-men crews of heavy bombers trained together for several weeks in the States before being sent overseas and into combat. When in combat the lives of the crew depended on all crewmen performing ...

On 6 January 1945 a B-17 heavy bomber, “Jeanie”, from the 91st Bomb Group was shot down by anti-aircraft fire ten minutes after it completed a bombing run over Cologne, Germany. Four crewmen, including the copilot, 1Lt ...